In the private life of Rachid Arhab, not a single shadow on the board. Because the former France 2 news presenter found the right fit many years ago. On August 26, 2009, he married Sylvie Gauthier in Puteaux. And
“it’s been more than twenty years”, as he recalled with loving eyes to Jordan de Luxe. What did he like about her? That it does not come from the audiovisual world. “I didn’t get married on television. I got married to a young woman who is in life, in the real world”he confided.
Sylvie Gauthier worked for many years as press officer at Robert Laffont editions. A house that she has now left. “She works in the book industry. We met at a reception, I think, for the release of a book. I was single”added Rachid Arhab. But Jordan de Luxe understood that his guest was not not very comfortable talking about his private life…
The journalist embarrassed to talk about his private life
“I will gladly answer you… but out of respect for Sylvie, I do not preferhe explained to her. I don’t want to say things that maybe she doesn’t want to be told.” We will therefore not know more about Sylvie Gauthier. What Rachid Arhab, however, agreed to discuss at length was on the subject of his daughter-in-law. Because his wife’s daughter is an emblematic personality of the 2000s: Ilona Mitrecey.
On February 28, 2005, she released a real hit. With his song A perfect worldthe young singer, then 12 years old, quickly reached the top of the charts, selling 1,520,000 copies in France. And that’s when she met her stepfather.
“I started knowing her and living with her when I met her mother. She was in her final years”he remembered on C8.
Rachid Arhab gives news of Ilona Mitrecey
“She asked herself if she should continue to believe that the world was perfect. She got through it”he added. According to him, Ilona Mitrecey lived through several complicated years because of her success. “What was violent for her was in high school, in college… Where the fact that she was a young artist who was successful was not very well seen. Other kids made him pay for it“regretted the former member of the Superior Audiovisual Council.
Attentive father-in-law, he says to himself “very happy for her”.
“Her parents, her father, her mother and her stepfather, explained to her that the choice was up to her. But she realized that it was a world in which she was going to go under a steamrollercontinued Rachid Arhab. I tried to share with him what I knew about the lightness of fame. That it was all temporary… But she was barely a teenager!” Today she has become
“a beautiful 31 year old girl who works in the digital media sector”.
